WILLIAMSON, HENRY — The Ackymals

Hamburg, PA: The Windsor Press, 1929. Limited Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Julian Links. B&W Illustrations; SIGNED EDITION. This copy has been signed by the author Henry Williamson, and also by the publisher Cecil Johnson (with a short inscription) . This edition is limited to 225 copies signed by the author. This is number 68. This copy has also been signed by one of the publishers - Cecil Johnson. This book is in Near Fine condition and has a glassine dust jacket in Near Fine condition. The book also has a cardboard slipcase in Very Good condition. The book and its contents are in clean, bright condition. There is some beginning toning to the spine joints of the the book. The text pages are clean and bright. The glassine is clean and bright. "Henry William Williamson (1 December 1895 – 13 August 1977) was an English writer who wrote novels concerned with wildlife, English social history, ruralism and the First World War. He was awarded the Hawthornden Prize for literature in 1928 for his book Tarka the Otter. He was born in London, and brought up in a semi-rural area where he developed his love of nature, and nature writing. He fought in the First World War and, having witnessed the Christmas truce and the devastation of trench warfare, he developed first a pacifist ideology, then fascist sympathies. He moved to Devon after the Second World War and took up farming and writing; he wrote many other novels. He married twice. He died in a hospice in Ealing in 1977, and was buried in North Devon. "(from Wikipedia); Signed by Collection of Signatures. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .